holocaust survivors
Survivors have felt insecure during the coronavirus pandemic, according to vaccine drive organizer Erika Jakubovits. "We owe this to them."
Over 70 years after losing track of her friend, Ruth Brandspiegel heard Israel Eisenberg's name announced during a virtual synagogue service.
Maxwell Smart, Helen Yermus and Rose Lipszyc lived through the Holocaust as children and are the subjects of a new documentary, "Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust." They share what they want young people to learn from the horror they endured.
Melpomeni Dina was a teenager and an orphan when she risked her life to hide and protect the Mordechai family.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
There's no doubt that anti-Semitism is alive and well in Lithuania today. Yet an opposite tendency - a desire among Lithuanians to remember and honor the Jewish past - is also plain to see.
The passing of Elie Wiesel serves as a timely reminder that one day soon Holocaust survivors will no longer be able to tell their own stories.
And we couldn't be happier for her.